Slave Narrative Six Pack - Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Twelve Years A Slave, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, William ...

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Solomon Northup, Fanny Kemble

The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. Some of the earliest memoirs of captivity known in England and the British Isles were written by white Europeans and later Americans captured and sometimes enslaved in North Africa, usually by Barbary pirates. These were part of a broad category of "captivity narratives" by English-speaking Europeans. For the Europeans and Americans, the division between captivity as slaves and as prisoners of war was not always clear. A broader name for these works is "captivity literature." Slave Narrative Six Pack presents six of the most famous examples of the Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Frances Anne Kemble The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African by Olaudah Equiano The Life of William H. Furness by William Still Captain Canot; or, Twenty years of an African being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the West Indies by Brantz Mayer Includes image gallery and link to free audio recording of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Genres: Classics, Nonfiction

1685 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 2, 2015

About the author

Great political influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin , novel against slavery of 1852 of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, American writer, advanced the cause of abolition.

Lyman Beecher fathered Catharine Esther Beecher, Edward Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, another child.

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, an author, attacked the cruelty, and reached millions of persons as a play even in Britain. She made the tangible issues of the 1850s to millions and energized forces in the north. She angered and embittered the south. A commonly quoted statement, apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln, sums up the effect. He met Stowe and then said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!" or so people say.

AKA:
Χάρριετ Μπήτσερ Στόου (Greek)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...

Reviews

[Raymond Nalepa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reveals the evil of slavery. Good read.

[Erika Skarlupka · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series took me a long time to finish being the Journal on a Georgian Plantation was so infuriatingly boring. Captain Canot is mildly entertaining, though it seems more like a dramatization of what being a slave might be. In all it rife with racism, which I believe is the point.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and 12 years a Slaves are the must reads out of the 5.

[Jessica Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collectively, all six packs are good.

If you have no background in 19th Century Slavery, these six packs are the way to go. If you do have a background, the repeats of everything you've read before can be frustrating. So check titles prior to purchase!